Faculty & Research
Fundamental Pricing of Utility Tokens
16 Apr
2019
2:00 pm
Jouy-en-Josas
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Economics & Decision Sciences Dept.
Speaker : Julien PRAT (CREST)
HEC Campus - Building T - Room T004
We explain how to evaluate the fundamental price of utility tokens. Our model endogenizes the velocity of circulation of tokens and yields a pricing formula that is fully microfounded. According to our approach, tokens are valuable because they have to be immediately accessible when the platform service is needed, a requirement that is reminiscent of the cash-in-advance constraint in the theory of money.